Layla M, the Dutch film entry for Academy Award Nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film Category is directed by Mijke de Jong and co-written by Mijke and her husband Jan Eilander. It features a compelling young Moroccan actress, (Nora El Koussour) who brings fire and passion to her role as an integrated 18 year old Dutch-Moroccan in Amsterdam who becomes increasingly radicalized along with her new husband, Abdel played by Ilias Addab.
‘Layla M. had its world premiere at Toronto Film Fest 2016 Platform. International sales are by Beta
As soon as the film opens, you understand that Layla is a tough girl in her neighborhood as she fights the football referee on his call and does not back down. She is also fighting for her rights as a Muslim woman wearing a burka and uses social media as only one in her generation knows how. She lives in an assimilated,...
‘Layla M. had its world premiere at Toronto Film Fest 2016 Platform. International sales are by Beta
As soon as the film opens, you understand that Layla is a tough girl in her neighborhood as she fights the football referee on his call and does not back down. She is also fighting for her rights as a Muslim woman wearing a burka and uses social media as only one in her generation knows how. She lives in an assimilated,...
- 10/19/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Acquisitions ahead of the festival include Mijke de Jong’s Layla M, which premieres in Tiff’s Platform strand.
Germany-based international sales agent Beta Cinema has added four titles to its slate ahead of this month’s Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18).
The company has picked up Mijke de Jong’s drama Layla M [pictured], which is set to premiere in the Platform competition section. The film follows an 18-year-old Dutch girl with Moroccan roots who joins a group of radical Muslims.
Director de Jong won a Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 2004 for his music drama Bluebird. Layla M was produced by Topkapi Films, Menuet, Chromosom Film, Schiwago Film, and Ntr and will receive its European Premiere in competition at the BFI London Film Festival in October.
Beta has also moved for Mahmoud al Massad’s dark comedy Blessed Benefit, which follows a Jordanian contractor who is imprisoned on an unfair fraud charge. Once inside...
Germany-based international sales agent Beta Cinema has added four titles to its slate ahead of this month’s Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18).
The company has picked up Mijke de Jong’s drama Layla M [pictured], which is set to premiere in the Platform competition section. The film follows an 18-year-old Dutch girl with Moroccan roots who joins a group of radical Muslims.
Director de Jong won a Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 2004 for his music drama Bluebird. Layla M was produced by Topkapi Films, Menuet, Chromosom Film, Schiwago Film, and Ntr and will receive its European Premiere in competition at the BFI London Film Festival in October.
Beta has also moved for Mahmoud al Massad’s dark comedy Blessed Benefit, which follows a Jordanian contractor who is imprisoned on an unfair fraud charge. Once inside...
- 9/6/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Things I find more grating than country music. The One Show. The music of Michael Buble. Louis Walsh. And that's probably about it. To be brutally honest, I haven't been much looking forward to Nashville, a new critically-hyped Us drama which centres around the world or rhinestones, Stetsons and boot-tapping darn' tootin' tunes.
However, if you're like me and you'd rather have a shave with a cheese grater than listen to an album of 'I miss my man' jaunty ditties, don't rule out this latest slice of soapy drama. There's plenty working in its favour and *whisper it* even the music wasn't that bad.
I'd watch nearly anything with Connie 'y'all' Britton in it and the Friday Night Lights alum was the main hook for me as ageing country singer Rayna Jaymes. Even when navigating some of the pilot episode's worst lines and clichés, she brought some likeability to the...
However, if you're like me and you'd rather have a shave with a cheese grater than listen to an album of 'I miss my man' jaunty ditties, don't rule out this latest slice of soapy drama. There's plenty working in its favour and *whisper it* even the music wasn't that bad.
I'd watch nearly anything with Connie 'y'all' Britton in it and the Friday Night Lights alum was the main hook for me as ageing country singer Rayna Jaymes. Even when navigating some of the pilot episode's worst lines and clichés, she brought some likeability to the...
- 2/9/2013
- Digital Spy
Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
- 10/30/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Los Angeles - Paul McCartney is to reissue the 1973 album Band on the Run that he recorded with the band Wings after his split from The Beatles, he announced Thursday on his website. The Grammy-winning album, which contains the hits Bluebird, Jet and Band on the Run, will be reissued in a multiple configurations including a deluxe DVD version complete with bonus tracks, videos, a book and photographs. According to the statement, the November 2 release will be the first in a plan to rerelease all of McCartney's work outside The Beatles. The announcement said that McCartney personally supervised all aspects of the reissue and that the remastering work was done at the famed Abbey Road...
- 9/17/2010
- Monsters and Critics
Berlin -- Drink, drugs, guns and prostitution: Judging by the subject matter of the selected films, the Berlin International Film Festival's children and youth sidebar Generation has come of age.
Brit drama "Cherrybomb," from Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn stars "Harry Potter" alumnus Rupert Grint as a teenager out for a wild weekend of stealing and substance abuse.
"Katja's Sister," from famed Dutch director Mijke de Jong -- who won Berlin's best children's film Crystal Bear prize in 2005 with "Bluebird" -- looks at prostitution among Russian immigrants in Amsterdam.
Chinese feature "Lala's Gun" by Ning Jingwu is a coming-of-age story centering on a boy's journey to deliver a gun to his father. And "My Suicide" by U.S. director David Lee Miller tells the story of a teen romance between a geek and the most beautiful, but twisted, girl in school.
But the initial lineup for Generation 2009, announced Wednesday,...
Brit drama "Cherrybomb," from Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn stars "Harry Potter" alumnus Rupert Grint as a teenager out for a wild weekend of stealing and substance abuse.
"Katja's Sister," from famed Dutch director Mijke de Jong -- who won Berlin's best children's film Crystal Bear prize in 2005 with "Bluebird" -- looks at prostitution among Russian immigrants in Amsterdam.
Chinese feature "Lala's Gun" by Ning Jingwu is a coming-of-age story centering on a boy's journey to deliver a gun to his father. And "My Suicide" by U.S. director David Lee Miller tells the story of a teen romance between a geek and the most beautiful, but twisted, girl in school.
But the initial lineup for Generation 2009, announced Wednesday,...
- 12/17/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has disqualified Bluebird, the official Dutch Oscar entry for best foreign-language film, because it has been shown on television, marketing and promotion agency Holland Film said Wednesday. "Because the film has been broadcast on Dutch television, the Academy considers Bluebird no longer as a valid cinema release," Holland Film spokesperson Marlies Baltus said. "The fact that the film has been newly edited for cinema was not accepted. According to the Academy, there was not enough difference between the two versions." Because of the late notification at the end of November, Holland Film has not been able to submit a new Dutch entry for the Oscars.
- 12/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMSTERDAM -- Mijke de Jong's family film Bluebird, has been picked as the official Dutch contender for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 Academy Awards, selection committee Holland Film announced Wednesday. The movie, awarded a Glass Bear in the children's section of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, tells the story of a 13-year-old girl who is pestered by her schoolmates. The events have a dramatic effect on her private life. Bluebird has been presented at several international festivals, including Toronto. The Dutch are traditionally one of the first territories to announce their candidate for the foreign language Oscar. Previous Dutch winners in the section are Marleen Gorris' Antonia's Line in 1996 and Mike van Diem's Karakter in 1998. Two years ago, Twin Sisters, directed by Ben Sombogaart, received a nomination.
- 8/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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